Getting Started

1. Curriculum Mapping "is a process by which all teachers document their own curriculum, then share and examine each others' curriculum for gaps, overlaps, redundancies, and new learning, creating a coherent, consistent, curriculum within and across schools that is ultimately aligned to standards and responsive to student data and other school initiatives"
   —Susan Udelhofen, Keys to Curriculum Mapping
2. What is Curriculum?
   • a document that delivers the mission we want of our schools.
   • a set of objectives which specify the desired ends of instruction; what the student will be able to do after instruction has occurred
   • a dynamic, ever-changing, continuous process—not a finished product.
3. Why Curriculum is Important
   • It provides a clear description of what to teach (and what students will learn)
   • Provides new teachers with a clear instructional resource
   • Horizontal alignment ensures consistency between like-student groups
   • Vertical alignment ensures smooth transition between adjacent grades/courses
4. Read Opportunity to Learn: School-Level Factors
   4 A's Text Protocol: What did you read that you . . .
   • feel is an "assumption"?
   • "agree" with?
   • want to "argue"?
   • want to "aspire" to?
5. Types of Curriculum
   • Recommended - what the research says
   • Written - what is printed on the hard copy
   • Taught - the learning that is facilitated in the classroom
   • Supported - what stakeholders believe should be taught
   • Tested - what shows up on the assessment
   • Learned - what the student internalizes
     • Curriculum Goal to ensure alignment of all these types of curriculum.